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" America likes you only if you're on the side she selects. If you don't go along with her totally, you're automatically considered to have entered the Soviet bloc. "
Side
America
Go
" Am I not peaceful? We want to be free - completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone. "
Peaceful
Free
Alone
" At least Russia and China didn't call us names when we smiled sweetly at America. "
Russia
Names
China
" Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same. "
Crush
Change
Goal
" Even a child, if he looks at a map of the world, can point out that the Indonesian archipelago forms one unity. On the map, there can be shown a unity of the group of islands between two great oceans - the Pacific Ocean and the Indies Ocean - and between two continents - the continent of Asia and the continent of Australia. "
Great
World
Unity
" Even if you were a general in 1945, if you split the revolutionary national unity today, if you are an enemy of the main pillars of the revolution today, then you have become a force of reaction! "
You
Enemy
Revolution
" Hatta always gave the impression of rain. If I was in a real good mood and full of ideas and then happened to encounter Hatta, I felt I was suddenly surprised by a shower of rain and got wet all over the body. My good mood was gone, and also my ideas. "
Ideas
Rain
Always
" How terrifically dynamic is our time! We can mobilize all the spiritual, all the moral, all the political strength of Africa and Asia on the side of peace. Yes, we! We, the people of Asia and Africa! "
Time
Spiritual
People
" I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists. "
Stand
Start
Always
" I am not an economist... I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary. "
Economic
I Am
Right
" I am very unhappy about reports that I was seeking asylum in Manila. "
Unhappy
Asylum
I Am
" I don't want to be a dictator, because it is contrary to my own conscience. I am a democrat, but I don't desire democratic liberalism. On the contrary, I want a guided democracy... I have a conception of my own, which I will put at the disposal of the party leaders if required. "
Democracy
Desire
Party
" I embrace the PKI because it is a revolutionary force. PKI go forward. PKI never retreat. PKI grow. PKI be strong. Onward. "
Grow
Never
Be Strong
" If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.' "
I Am
Said
Smile
" If I used to say that Indonesia would be free when the corn ripens, I can now say that Indonesia will be free before it blossoms. "
Say
Will
I Can
" If Marcos wants to aid Malaysia, that's his business, but we will continue to crush Malaysia, even if we have to fight alone. "
Business
Aid
Alone
" If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.' "
You
Say
Nation
" If we truly understand, remember, and love the people of Indonesia, let us accept this principle of social justice, that is, not only political equality, but we must create equality in the economic field, too, which means the best possible well-being. "
Best
People
Love
" I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world. "
Struggle
Small
World
" I liked Kennedy. So far, he is the only American president who could talk with me and with whom I could talk. I know Johnson, but I have not yet a clear opinion of him. "
Him
American
Know
" I love life. "
I Love
Life
Love Life
" I myself am sometimes fed up with Hatta's policies. Hatta and I sometimes bug each other, but omitting Hatta from the Proclamation Text... that is the action of a coward! "
Action
Coward
Myself
" Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million. "
Rich
Resources
Natural
" Insofar as Pancasila is concerned, I am only its formulator: a formulator of those feelings which have been present silently in the heart of the Indonesian people. "
People
Feelings
Heart
" It has been the case for some time that I have made myself dizzy thinking about the fact that the implementation of the Three-fold Program of the government, above all in the area of food and clothing, has been experiencing difficulties. "
Thinking
Myself
Food
" It is, of course, true that I have given priority to the settling of the problem of security and the problem of Irian Barat, although I knew that in order to do these things, almost three-quarters of our national product had to be spent. "
Product
Problem
Security
" I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family. "
Freedom
Sit
Patriotism
" I would adore to make up with the United States of America... Oh, America, what is the matter with you? Why couldn't you have been my friend? "
America
Friend
Up
" Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future. "
Us
Past
Keep
" Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did not bathe in water from a tap. I did no know about forks and spoons. "
Know
Own
Water
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